The High Court on Thursday upheld the death sentence of three convicts for killing English medium school student Himadri Majumder Himu in Chattogram in 2012.

The court, on the other hand, acquitted two other accused in the case.

An HC bench of Justice Bhishmadev Chakrabortty and Justice Khandaker Diliruzzaman handed down the verdict after holding hearing on the death reference and the appeals of the convicts and accused challenging the lower court verdict.

The death row convicts are Zahidur Rahman Shaon, Junaid Ahmed Riad and Mahbub Ali Danny. Two other convicts Shah Selim Tipu and Shahadat Hossain Shaju were acquitted.

A Chittagong court on August 14, 2016 sentenced five persons to death in the murder.

On April 27, 2012, Shaon, Riad, Shaju and Danny allegedly kidnapped Himu, a student of A-level, from in front of Summerfield School and College in the Panchlaish area of the port city. They, later, forcibly took him to the rooftop of a four-storey building in the area and beaten him there mercilessly.

At one stage, the convicts unleashed three ferocious dogs upon him. Later, he was pushed off the building.

Himu breathed his last at the Square Hospitals in Dhaka on May 23, 2012.

His maternal uncle filed a case with Panchlaish Police Station over the incident.